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California Lumber Merchant Dear Dave,

Regarding Weyerhaeuser's stand on lumber sizes as explained in your editorial of SePtember, I wanted to let You know why I am against tr/z' thick lumber at 79/o moisture content.

At 19% moisture content surplus water has been removed reducing the weight of the lumber and consequentlY cost of freight; but to call it DRY in southern California would be a misnomer. RoughlY 67Vo of the shrinkage is still to come below 19%.

From green to L9% MC shrinkage in thickness would be somewhere between l/64" and L./32" a far cry frorl t/a," (4/32"') the 1126" proponents suggested.

Why did we not accePt the 114" so-called DtY Standard and cut our lumber l/32" over?

The answer is simple. We use approximately 300 million feet of boards %" annually. Our sources produce onlY aPProximately 10O million feet, so 200 million feet annually will have to be resawn from dimension. Some yards will answer that they have had no trouble Procuring boards-True-but if other yards and mills did not produce S1S2E-boards would be scarce indeed.

In southern California alone this business in boards amounts to $100,000 per day. We have that business now and want to keep it.

How much promotion money would have to be spent to recover $100,000 per day in business ?

In Washington, D.C., November 1962, before the American Lumber Standards Committee, Paul Hollenbeck of the southern California delegation, proposed a graduated seale from green to real dry, based on the original size which finishes L9h," gleen. THIS IS THE ONLY FAIR WAY TO START-from the original state. Arnerican Lumber Standards have been based on this for-I believe-40 Years.

Identifying the moisture contents such as l6/l9Vo MC or Lam Stock 9/!2/o could be made part of the stamp. SimPle isn't it?

I believe this could be made acceptable to both sides. TheoreticalY the gjeen, the semi-dry and the dry, would end uP being the same size. What is wrong with that ?

Who will take the first steP in this direction?

Respectfully submitted' Erik Flamer, Long Beach, Calif.

California Lumber Merchant Gentlemen, Your magazine, the Culif ornia Lumber Merohant, has been recommended to us bY Mr. Williams A. Dost of the University of California, as a reference to redwood mills and brokers.

Would you please forsa.rd a subscription form to us?

Yours very truly, Irving Rose Thorkelsson-Rose Limited Winnipeg 3, Manitoba Canada.

Dear Sirs: We just wanted to let You folks at tlne Merchant know how much we enjoyed Your story in the last issue on the history of the Ifobbs Wall Lumber Company.

To us old-timers a story about the "good old" daYs orf lumbering are the most interesting. I wonder if the lumber game will ever see daYs like that again ?

Yours Tlrrly, L. E. Adams, R. L. Adams. Long Beach, Calif.

WAREI{OUsE OPENING

(Continued lrom Pige 39) these were just a few as the warehouse was full of many more items for the retail dealers.

The guests were met by Big Jim who had the keys to the Regina Wine Cellar display and was the dispenser of the cham. pagne and hors d'oeuvres. He kept bubble water flowing during the cocktail hours and right through the splendid roast beef, ham and turkey bufiet.served by Chef Harold.,Sine of the Green Turtle restaurant in 'Riverside.

At the evening's end door prizes of various items were distributed to the lucky ories and everybody left with samples and a feeling they had been entertained like royalty-and not a sales pitch was made. Spreading it out over two nights eliminated the pressure and was a guiding factor in making this event so successful.

The new branch warehouse is located right in the central downtown district at 342 W. I Street, near the freeway and a f2-car spur.

Literally hundreds of brand-named items are carried in stock for fast action to dealers throughout Riversidg San Bernardino and Imperial counties. E. L. "Bud" Corey has been selected as warehouse manager and will keep materials rolling to customers.

Weotheroll's New Primer Co'lor

Masonite Corporatbn's all-purpose exterior paneling, Weatherall, is now being shipped with a new color primer, gray, similar to other primed sidings in the company's line, according to E. A. Rose, exterior products merchandising manager.

Thelspecial baked-on primer is identical with that previously used on this product; only the color has been changed, Rose saE.

Weatherall is used for panel siding, soffits, exterior signs, fences and other exterior applications such as farm building exteriors. The quarter-inch-thick panels come in various lengths up to 16'.